davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-05
Choking the Radical Press.

The editors and proprietors of
Laeik'r, published at Valley Falls,
Kansas, have been Indicted by the
grand Jury ostensibly for printing
and sending obscene matter
through the mails, but in reality
for publishing a journal which
contained radical utterances on
the labor, social and free thought
questions in general.
Through a conspiracy of the
parasite priests, preachers, politi-
clans and wealthy men of the vi
cinity, the editors of the paper
have been arrested on trumped up
and frivolous charges heretofore,
solely with a view of breaking up
the paper.
The following from the editor
closes an appeal to all who love
fair play and freedom of speech
and OF the press:
ut is a square fight for free
press. We fatty deny the charge
of obscenity. Lneitv has never
contained an obscene word, even
when judged by the anti-natural
standards of the dominant religion
and sociology. We ask the COM
radeship and substantial help of
the Freethinkers and Humanita-
rianS of the country. To defend
in the United States courts against
such a charge as this is costly, and
the publication of Q radical paper
such as ours brings in money in a
very slow and intermittent stream.
10 pay current expenses out OF
our weekly receipts is all that we
are able to do. and so. in a crisis
like this, we must appeal to our
co-workers to help US in our de-
iensive struggle with the powers
of intolerance and prescription, a
struggle upon whose final issue
hangs the liberty to speak and
write and print, of every man and
woman in our land.
AZ. c. WALKER,
Junior Editor of Laeitiv.
VALLEY FALLS, Kan.,. Oct. 3d."
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-05
The LEAGUE.
A Large, Lively and Intereet1nG
Meeting.

A large audience assembled a
old Unity church on Sunday night
to listen to the programme made
up for the evening by the members
of the Rocky Mountain Social
League. Mrs. Wood at the organ
and Master Walter Holsinger and
Mr.. Empons cornetists, made an
excellent musical combination
The choir opened the services by
singing The Red Flag of Free
dom" after which ]. J. Callahan
entered into an explanation of the
object Of the League. Miss Rosa
Cohen and ]. P. Davis read the
first lesson of the Socialist Cate
chism. d. M. Leahy made ex-
planatory remarks on the lesson.
Reasons why ! am a Socialist
brought out many good things
from the large number who gave
reasons for the faith. that was in
them. ID. Keifer recited "The
Tocsin." William Clarke MarshalPs
last poem, which was received
with applause. Byron Millett
entered into an interesting discus
sion on Legal jurisprudence" in
the course of which he reviewed
the origin, nature and meaning
of law, and how it was not always
synonymous with justice or equity.
Lack of space prevents giving it
the notice it deserves in this issue.
Arthur Cheesewright sang "A
Shout of Protest" and received
well mcrited applause from the
large audience who made known
their feeling toward the CON-
rades in the Chicago Jail by ap-
plauding the reference to them by
the singer. "The question-box'
contained a large and miscellane-
Gus collection Of queries, sensible
and otherwise, the answers to
which added much to the general
interest ofthe meeting. The choir
then sang labor song and the
League adjourned.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-05
The Knights Protest.

New YORK, Oct. 2o.-A meet
ing held under the auspices of the
Knights of Labor took place to-
night in Union square to protest
against the hanging of the con-
demned Chicago anarchists. More
than 10000 people we're present.
Resolutions we're passed calling
upon the courts of the nation to
Immediately release the con-
demned men and providing for
the appointment of committee
to proceed to Illinois and wait
upon governor Oglesby if the su-
preme court fails to grant a stay.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-05
Twas . Suuabble.

Powderly's story about char
mony" at Minneapolis is, like its
author. untrue. ]. R. Buchanan,
in the last issue of the Chicago
Labor Enquirer, says:
MANY of the delegates to Min
neapolis were correspondents of
labor papers. but they have shown
their unftness for such duty. 1t
is not to be! expected that the
capitalist press will tell the truth
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-05
Spiritualist Meeting.

The Progressive Spiritualists Of
Denver have engaged Dr.. F. O.
Matthews, a celebrated trance
speaker and test medium to speak
for them at the Chamber of Com
merce Hall on Sunday, November
6 at 1890 a. m, 3 p. m. and 7:3o
p. m. After each lecture he will
give descriptions of the so-called
departed spirit-friends that may
be present. All cordially invited.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-05

Our lady friends will be inter-
ested in knowing that by sending
20 cents to pay postage, and IS
top covers Of Warmers Safe Yeast
(showing that they have used at
least IS packages) to H. H. War
ner & Co. Rochester, New York,
they can get soo-page. finely
illustrated cook book free. Such
a book bound in cloth could not
be bought for less than, a dollar.
1t is a wonderful good chance to
get a fine book for the mere pos
tage and the ladies' should act
promptly.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-05

especially tie "A
officially for the i j
but when a writer ii
wilfully deceIves
should be dcnounced shd AZ
EnqAvsy herewith denounces
wholesale the noodles Who report
ed "a harmonious and be6e6ci5l
session" 1t may be III hight 70
deceive the outside world, and
keep up the impression that every
thing is prosperous and lovely,
but when the wool-pulling IS ex-
tended to the men and women
who are being robbed, As well as
deceived it is time to cry out. The
general assembly at Minneapolis
was squabble from beginning to
its close, and nothing of impor-
tance to the workers was accom-
plished. The ring laid its ruth
less hand on honest investigation
before the assembly opened, and
up to the closing hours it was an
unequal and finally futile struggle
of truth trying to rise and face its
rascally suppressors. The time
has come to tell the truth and
shame the devil"
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-05
UNION LAB0R PARTY.|
Hnthualas = Hsstlnss Held Dur-
INK ths weeh ~ Throlgh-
ont ~ city.
Let Every Wsrkingnal Do His Duty
frsn new Until tks Polls Close
On Rlestisa Day.


On Bleetisn Day.
During the past week the Uniol
Labor Party workers have pu1
forth their best efforts and the re
suit has been that much good ha.
been accomplished.
The campaign opened with I
rousing meeting on the corner o.
Eighteenth and Holladay streets
Keifer, Cohen. Millett. Leahy anc
Callahan made short addresse.
which were very favorably re,
ceived by the crowd of several
hundred who had gathered.
On the evening of the twenty
eighth good meeting was held
at chamber of commerce corner
Monday evening very successful
gathering of the working voters
was addressed by Byron Millett
Cohen, Callahan and others, on
the corner of Ninth and Holiday
streets. t.
Tuesday evening one Of the best
meetings thus far in fhe campaign
was held at Thirty-6rst and Lari-
mer streets. = Miss Mccarthy
Cohen, Keifer and others ad-
dressed the assembled voters ol
that locality.
Wednesday evening at Fifteenth
and Platte, Messrs. Cohen, Millett
and Keifer addressed a fine audi.
ence which appeared to be in full
sympathy with the speakers.
Colfax avenue bridge was the
scene of remarkably effective
meeting on Thursday evening.
Friday evening meeting a,
Thirty-third and Champa streets
was addressed by Macdonald
Keifer, Millet, Cohen and others
The last meeting of the cam
paign will be held at the corner oil
Eighteenth and Holladay streets
on Monday evening next-Nov. 7,
Considering the fact that every
cent of the actual legitimate ex-
pense of the campaign is being
borne by the men who work for
their money-considering this, the
campaign has been made with
vigor and determination and will
result in polling large vote for
the candidates Of the Labor Party
The latest dodge on the part Of
the Peoples Boodlers' is to
claim, as they have during the
past week, that the Union Labor
Party. leaders have made overtures
towards uniting with the boodlers
This is on a par with the tactics ol
the boodlers throughout the whole
campaign. There is no truth in it
and the only overtures made to.
ward effecting an impossible uni
hcation of the opposing elements
of Doodle and honesy have been
made by the schemers who are
running this Peoples Doodle
Party" with the hope of getting
the labor vote to support a lot ol
cast-offs and two-for-a-nickel ia.
bor' politicians who, until their
engagement by the old party
boodlers to break up the labor
vote, have never identified them.
selves with the workingmen.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-05
The French Goyernment Pleads,

PARIS, Oct. 2o.-The Chamber
of Deputies met to-day and resolv-
ed to send the following to the
governor of Illinois:
"ln the name of humanity and
in the nameof the connection be-
tween the two great republics the
Paris deputies, advocating the abb
oIltion Of political death, ask for
the lives Of the seven men who
were condemned to death at Chi
cago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25

IT is strange that certain Republicans are
making such "hubbub" over the ''rebel
flag ORDER" when for more than twenty years,
under one Republican administration after an
other these flags were kept by Republicans.
rotting in boxes, packed away in the cellars
and garrets of the War Department.. under or
over the very eyes of Republican Secretaries
of War.-Sentinel.
This shows about as much sensibility and
appreciation of the principle involved as was
shown by the lump of obesity in the White
House The question was not how the flags
should be kept, but whether they should be
held by the government whose brave soldiers
captured them, returned to ex-rebels to be
glorifed again. To let them rot in boxes or
be packed away in cellars was very good dis
position of them as long as the boxes or cellars
were those of the government To return
them to their former owners, to be hung up in
their State capitols as object lessons of trea-
on was the very worst use that could possibly
be made of them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25

LOCAL interest in the Cincinnati bank
failure centers in the depositors who, mat
ters now look. will not get cent. But the
outside public will be most concerned with
the final disposition of the vice president,
cashier and assistant cashier The prompt
action of the Comptroller of the Currency in
placing them under arrest is highly commend
able. 1t remains to be seen whether they
will get their deserts. New York and New
Jersey have recently done a good work in
Furnishing some big bank criminals, and the
public will be interested to see if Cincinnati
has the nerve to follow their example.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25
COMMENT AND OPINION.

IT is rather hard on Endicott to have it ru-
mored that the President wants him out of the
Cabinet while Garland remains Inst Louis
Post-Dispatch.
JUDGE HOLMAN, of Indiana, ''views with
alarm the tremendous growth of the Labor
party in that State. The Judge should lose no
time in propping up his fences.-Philadelphia
Press
IT is disgrace to every Kentuckian. from the
Governor of the State down, that this murderous
warfare 1.-THE Rowan county feud1 should have
been allowed 20 go without the execution of
q single murderer according to law: but scarcely
any Kentuckan of position or influence seems
to feel it as a disgrace.-New York Times.
THE public will regard with com posture the ef-
fort now being made by the distillers in confer
ence at Chicago establish g. trust organize
ton, with a view of limiting the production and
increasing the price of whisky. Any organiza-
ton, trust otherwise that will accom- lish
those ends deserves reimbursement A success
full corner in whisky would be boon to the
country.-New York Times.
If the ambitious women of this country wish
to obtain any valuable deductions from the life
of the Queen of England they will be to the eff
feet that far as her example is of value women
are utterly untitled for political positions. If
other women like her. then the only use
they would make OF high place would be to
employ it for their benefit: to marry off
their dependent relatives. and to accumulate
private fortunes of swollen dimensions. Chi
sago Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25
MINOR MATTERS.

Important Changes To BE Made in the Sta
lions of Troops the Frontier.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-An order will
be issued from the War Department making the
following important changes of stations in the
army. which will go iuto effect as after the
1st of July as possible:
The headquarters band and four troops of the
Seventh Cavalry will be transferred from Fort
Meade. D. T., by marching to Fort Riley Kan.
The headquarters of the Fifth Cavalry. now at
Fort Riley. will be transferred to such pests in
the Indian Territory as the commanding general
of the Department of the Missouri may desig-
nate. Two of the troops of the Fifth Cavalry,
now at Fort Riley. will go Fort Sill, l. T., and
the other two to Fort Elliott, Tex
This will give Colonel Forsythe, of the Seventh
Cavalry, com nand of the new cavalry and artil-
lery school lately authorized by Congress, and
for the construction of which $500. 900 is now
being expended. The two troops of the same
regiment now at Fort Sill are to be transferred,
by marching, TO tbs Department. of Texas. and
then, by marching. all the troops of the Third
Cavalry will change stations with the troops OF
the Eighth Cavalry. This will put the Third
Cavalry on the lower Rio Grande. The Twelfth
Infantry, now stationed in the Department OF
the Lakes, will change. by railway, with this
Eleventh Infantry, in the Department OF
Dakota. with headquarters at Fort Sully.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25

General Sheridan. whose first information OF
them is obtained from the published order di-
recting their execution.
The manner in which these things arc done ID
illustrated by a recent occurrence. Some weeks
ago Second Lieutenant Lyman, of the Fifth Ine
transfer to the Fifth Cavalry. there being three
vacancies in the latter regiment Shortly after
Lymans application reached headquarters
similar application received from Second
Lieutenant Elliott for transfer from the Eighth
to the Fifth Cavalry. Both these young men
were graduated at West Point in june 1886.
Lyman standing about fifteen files in
front or Elliott The application of Ly-
man was approved by General Sheridan
and referred to the Secretary. That OF
der to await the action of the Secretary on Ly'
mans case. AS the Secretary did not act on
Lymans application, it was thought he did not
intend to approve any transfers because the
time was SO near for the graduation ct the first
class at the Military Academy, for whom all
vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant are
reserved by law.
General Au2ur, a retired officer, was pushing
for the transfer of Elliott. and during the alb
sence of General Sheridan, and while Elliott's
General Drum, in having an order issued for the
transfer OF his protege. This is not only an in
dignity toward General Sheridan, but q manifest
injustice to Lyman, whose application was first
received and approved, and who is the senior of
Elliott. Mr.. Elliott is the junior lieutenant of
Fifth Cavalry he gains two files. It is such
transactions this that give rise to unpleasant
ness between the Secretary and the commanding
general. Knowing that the Adjutant- general
possesses much influence over the Secretary,
officers and others seeking favorS that could not
be obtained through the regular channels go to
General Drum with their social and political
friends and utterly ignore General Sheridan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ENGLISH children are to De pitied this year.
Some of the new ones are being named Jubiletta.
COLONEL LAMONT says that days sojourn in
the Adirondacks cost the presidential party only
81 per capita
QUEEN vICToRIA's favorite dish is tapioca pud-
dug. She is sturdy eater, and fair drinker
of ciaret and red wines.
RICHARD HENRY SToDDARD writes his poems
in hand of such neatness aud legiblity as
would put type-w writer to the blush.
DONALD G. MITCHELL the author, resides at
Edgewood, in the immediate vicinity of New
Haven. Conn, and has ten children all of whom
are living and in excellent health.
VIM d. HowELLs says that Tolstoi is the
greatest writer of fiction the world ever saw.
This judgment is the more remarkable as
Tolstoi does not lay the scene Of his novels in
Boston.
IT is related of the late ex wee President
Wheeler that when the salary grab bill was
passed he voted against it, but he drew his
money, went to the Treasury, bought United
States bonds, and cancelled them in the presence
of Treasurer Spinner. Thus the money
stored to the Treasury without any record of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25

UNLESS something new is developed in re-
gard to Cora Lee in the coming trial of Mrs.
Molloy it is not likely that she will be tried
again. The sentiment of the community
seems to be rather in her favor, and, though
many people about Springfield believe that she
and Mrs. Molloy are guilty of participation in
the murder of Sarah Graham, it is not prob
able that a verdict can be found against
either. Both will doubtless soon be at liberty
to go their way to make the best of smirched
and broken lives. Even if innocent of any
part in the murder, their conduct during their
acquaintance with Graham was far from ex-
emplary, and the experience growing out of
it should make them wiser and better women.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25

WHETHER Acknowledgment Drum is a Re-
publican or Democrat is of no consequence,
and cuts no figure in the rebel flag business.
The evidence all goes to show he is Demo-
cret and a selfish schemer and time-server,
and hs undoubtedly expected to make favor
with the administration by recommending the
return of the rebel flags. But his politics are
Of no consequence. Mr. Cleveland is the
responsible man in the business. He is the
head of the firm, and cannot escape the re-
sponsibility for his order by throwing it on
the clerk who wrote it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25
THE subjects treated of by the young me

THE subjects treated of by the young men
of the Rose Polytechnic Institute, in their
graduation papers, were of a refreshingly prac-
teal character. and in striking contrast with the
sentimental and purely literary themes dis
cussed by the graduates of other educational
establishments hereabouts Comparisons are
odious, but the thought will arise that while the
students who have just finished" their educa-
ton in the ordinary colleges have now to find
their work in the world and learn how to do it,
the Polytechnic graduates have included that
knowledge with the rest, and are ready TO apply
it. No one who has completed course in any
school ever accumulated too much informat alton
or any that will be entirely useless to him, but
there are degrees of value even in WISDOM and
in this extremely practical age that which can
be utilized most speedily in the earning of live
lihood is coming to be regarded with most favor
The indications are that the manual training
school, its many varieties and degrees of devel-
opment is to be the favorite school of the i'm
mediate future.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25
Two Military Records.

Phiadephia Press.
The attempt of the administration organs to
belittle the military records Of General Farchild,
of Wisconsin, and General Tuttle, of Iowa, is
just as foolhardy tho actions by which the
President provoked the present controversy.
General Fairchild was gallant and fearless
soldier as entered the war from either side. and
an empty sleeve bears testimony that he faced
the enemy where the fight going in
est As for General Tuttle, he led the regiment
that made the charge ut Fort Donelson-the reei-
ment which, after a series of fierce, hot battles
from Donelson to iuka. had SO declined from its
membership of GAO that it mustered a meagre 115
men, all the others having been killed or wound
ed 1t may suit the organs of the admnstra-
ton to sneer at such soldiers as Farchild and
futile, but they will have to do it alone. Such
scoffng findss neither favor nor encouragement
among veterans of the confederate army VINO
met Fairchild and Tuttle the field. 1t 10 an
instance in which fools turn round TO sheer at
heroes who command the honest respect OF their
former foemen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25

A FLORIDA paper isn't greatly concerned
about the return of the flags, but hopes that
Congress, at it's next session, will authorize
the government to take charge of and main
tain the cemeteries in which rest the mortal
remains of the confederate dead" There GER
tainly ought to be no difficulty about this.
If the 'new South" is so very new that it
cannot remember to care for the dead of the
ia undertaking the task.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-25

by no means queenly performance. 1t may
be remarked, by the way, that some of these
papers which see nothing but loneliness in
Victories act commented with sneers upon
the conduct of a President of tho United
States in turning at the close of his Inaugural
ton speech TO kiss his mother. What in their
ton in the one case was a vulgar display of
sentiment in another. 1t makes all the differ
ence, perhaps, whether the caress is English
or not.